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Monday, May 30, 2016

Hi, everyone! Heather P. here, and I'm posting on the Winnie & Walter blog today to share the card I've created using some of my favorite W&W products and a simple, but fun, color combo! :)

To create my card, I started by trimming a white cardstock panel to 4 x 5.25", and then stamped it with two of the flowers from In Bloom: Eva's Favorite Flowers to create my background. The stamped panel was then adhered to a light gray card base with foam tape in the lower right hand corner.

I then used the In a Word: Hello Cutaway die on a piece of aqua textured cardstock to create the focal sentiment. Once die cut, I adhered the sentiment to the card front. To finish up my design, I embellished with glittery aqua enamel dots. That wraps it up for me today, thanks for stopping by! :)

Saturday, May 28, 2016

May is coming to a close which sadly means it is our last Saturday with our marvelous and magnificent May Leading Lady, Cris G. I feel so fortunate Cris has been our Leading Lady this month gracing us with her ingenuity, awe-inspiring artistic skills and creativity! It has been a magical May indeed.

If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or her sensational second performance of bright and bold watercolor wonders CLICK HERE or her triumphant third performance of en-wrap-turing projects CLICK HERE.Make sure to visit her blog for a chance to win a giveaway.

Lucky for us all we have her final command performance today.

Hello crafty friends!

Today is my last performance as a Leading Lady (is it just me or
this sound a bit melodramatic? :)). It has been a real pleasure sharing this
time with you and reading all the wonderful and always encouraging comments,
even when I didn’t feel so creative. I confess now that I was suffering from
lack of mojo even before my first post... still do. Anyway, thank you so much
for having me Shay! You know I truly admire your kindness, strength and
perseverance!

For this last post I brought the most unique theme (ha ha):
Flora! I can explain, the theme could be Flowers, but there is a tree and
leaves... and no flowers, so I thought that Flora would cover everything.

First of all, my Brushos arrived... yabba dabba doo! They
are really fun to play with, but I still have a lot to explore and control. For
now I think that a mix of free powders on watercolour paper (and all over the
desk), along with a little bit of discipline from a brush are the technique(s)
that work best for me.

Before this first card I had two really bad attempts, but
finally I’m pleased with this one. I started by stamping two hydrangeas
from In
Bloom: Addie’s Garden with a little masking, and then literally soak
them in water, using a brush. After that I carefully dropped the powders,
repeating the process a few times until I was happy with the intensity of
color. Although powders spread beyond where we want them to be, you can blame
all that spatter on me :). Then I cut the In
a Word: Kisses Cutaway from the main piece and from craft foam.
Stamped and white heat embossed the word sending from The
Big, the Bold and Friends, adhere everything and spritz with a mix of
Perfect Pearls and water.

Project two. I started with Scenery:
the Leaf Effect Creative Screenings and Brushos. I saw a video on
YouTube sharing some different techniques with watercolour powders and decided
to try this one. I simply LOVE the effect of mixed colors on the leaves. The
second step was white heat embossing the tree from Kindness
with Evelin T Designs and sentiment from the Wishing You With Evelin T
Designs on vellum. Stamped the little “sunshine” from In
Bloom: Eva’s Favorite Flowers and fussy cut, then attached with a tiny
metal clip to the vellum piece, embellishing with some sequins from Winnie’s
Sparkly Shaker Selection. Easy card with a cool effect produced from
applying Brushos through a stencil.

For my third and last card I decided to do something more
classic with a vintage touch. I used a vintage like stamp for the sentiment, to
match the overall design.

Friday, May 27, 2016

Hi Folks! Today I have a scrapbook page in the "Hello xxx" series, documenting my progress in making life changes (large and small) in my 45th year. This page documents a landmark moment in my life. My first cell phone. I'm dead serious. Until a couple weeks ago I had never owned a cell phone. I've been the lone hold-out for several reasons, one of which is documented on my page.

I love using Winnie & Walter's large dies for scrapbook pages since they're so, well, large. They don't get lost on a 12x12 page, especially if you group them in multiples. Adding several hearts (from True Multifaceted Heart Cutaways) to this page is a good way for me to establish the overall color scheme.

At the top of the page I added a multifaceted heart instead of a solid heart. I was excited about using the multifaceted shape on top of a photo because you can see through it. So you get the best of both worlds, a layered shape on top of a photo for some interest, and the ability to still see the photo. I will definitely keep this in mind for future pages.

My first
thought was to just snip the 's' off a 'hugs' and add an 'e' to make 'huge
hugs' but then had someone in mind when I made this phrase. I've used soft
pastels as it's supposed to be a calming card and for the background I've used the Cover Model: The Leaf Effect Cutaway.

I hope
you'll give your In A Word Cutaways a second glance and see what fun words you
can create using them!

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Our May Leading Lady, Cris G, is back for her triumphant third performance! If you missed her smashing debut you must see it....CLICK HERE or her sensational second performance of bright and bold watercolor wonders CLICK HERE! You'll be en-wrap-tured (haha!) with today's terrific projects by Cris!

This week my attention goes toward something I really enjoy
doing - gift wrapping. I always put a little bit of my heart when wrapping
gifts to the ones I love... also enjoy making gifts.

So let’s get started, shall we?

My first project is very simple, in fact I don’t even need to
describe the process because it is self explanatory.

I’ll just tell you how I made the stamp. Die cut Flawless
Heart Cutaways from adhesive craft foam glued to a medium weight piece
of cardstock, cut two more hearts from the detailed die using cereal boxes and
adhere to the previous. In the end mounted the stamp onto a piece of very
sturdy cardboard and went to town stamping hearts. To finish off I die cut a
heart, both the detailed and solid, blending some Versa Magic ink, the same
used for stamping. Adhered the two hearts to a circle where I had previously
die cut two slits using one of the little dies from Essentials:
Noelle Cutaways. After everything was mounted, I used linen thread and some
black star sequins.

Last but not least I made some packaging having kids in mind.
You have probably seen hundreds of gifts using plastic animals and other toys
on Pinterest, mine is just one more but with an important message. Besides it
is didactic, you’ll just see why. Now you’ll have to pretend that the scenario
is somewhere in Africa, taking the fauna into account... but you don’t have
cactus in savannas, so this might be the starting point to a research project
with the kid that will receive such gift, lol. It could, though.